Growing Pains: Time and Change in the Garden - Softcover

Thorpe, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156002019 ISBN 13: 9780156002011

Publisher: Harvest Books, 1995

Synopsis

In the last 20 years more Americans began more ambitious gardens with less information and less help than at any time in the last two centuries. This witty, provocative endlessly informative book describes, in a light but no-nonsense tone, how to help a garden after it has been growing for several years. Illustrated throughout.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Few gardening books mention, let alone concentrate on, the growth that is the essence of gardening. Thorpe helps the gardener confront "mid-life crisis" in the garden-one that like its creator seems suddenly to have developed scantiness in some areas and too much growth in others. She wisely and wittily explains how the instant meadow becomes a field of weeds, what to grow under ever-spreading trees, and how to cope with overgrown shrubs and an unbalanced border. She helps the former novice temper enthusiasm with wisdom, rethinking a garden plan to use more suitable material in more imaginative ways. Anyone who has gardened for a decade or has purchased an overgrown lot should go out with this book in one hand and pruning shears in the other. Highly recommended for the uniqueness of the subject and the quality of the writing. [Garden Book Club main selection.]-Molly Newling, Piscataway P.L., N.J.
--Molly Newling, Piscataway P.L., N.J.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist:

This guide is not for beginning gardeners but for those who need some guidance with gardens that are several years old--in the words of Patricia Thorpe, a garden in midlife crisis. The problems--and solutions--include overcrowding, too few plants because of pests and diseases or underplanting, soil depletion, and environmental concerns. Thorpe also suggests that gardeners may want to consider redesigning their gardens, especially perennial borders. This informative guide, Thorpe's fourth book, is illustrated with 20 black-and-white drawings and is a dual main selection of the Garden Book Club. George Cohen

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvest Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0156002019
• ISBN 13: 9780156002011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206
• Illustrator: Clifford Judy